Day two of the Bay of Plenty Swimming's Short Course Championships is seeing some fierce competition at Baywave today.

The Bay's brightest and best swimmers vying for provincial honours.

The Bay of Plenty Swimming's short course championships are taking place at Baywave this weekend. Photos: Chris Callinan.

Lily Pearce, 10, came 10th in her heat.

Yesterday marked the start of the three day competition where swimmers are divided into Under 12, 13 and 14 age brackets, will compete in distances spanning from 50m to 1500m.

The championships are a precursor to next month's New Zealand Age Group Short Course Championships in Auckland, which run from August 11-15.

Today swimmers are making a splash in the 200m freestyle, 50m breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle, 100m backstroke and 200m butterfly.

There is also the 200m medley relays and 1500m freestyle for the fastest 10 qualifiers in both boys' and girls' divisions.

Sunday sees the 400m freestyle, 100m butterfly and breaststroke, 200m backstroke and 100m freestyle.